In a dell carpeted with silverweed and wild mustard, we come across a nest of our persisting friend, the chipping sparrow.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron
I love the gorse and the bracken, I love the stagnant pond, I love the very geese that tug hard at the silverweed, they make it all seem so deliciously English."
"The Woman Who Did"
Grant Allen
silverweed tea is excellent to relieve cramps of the belly; and compresses, wrung out of a hot decoction of the herb, may at the same time be helpfully applied over the seat of the cramps.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie